Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi> writes:
> The HACKING and README-hacking files contain advice to send patches to the
> email address in the respective program's --help output.
>
> However, --help output might not contain any email addresses, such as for
> example in the coreutils that ships with Ubuntu 25.04. Looks as if both
> PACKAGE_PACKAGER and PACKAGE_PACKAGER_BUG_REPORTS need to be set in order
> to have at least one address there.
>
> Maybe some rephrasing of the hacking docs or adding fallback info there in
> case of no other email address source would be in order.
I think that adding an email regardless would be good seeing that Ubuntu
wants to change their coreutils commands to uutils eventually [1]. I
feel like that change will cause some confusion on where to report
bugs...
Plus the GNU coding standards say there should be an email [2]. On my
Fedora 42 machine:
$ automake --help | grep @
Report bugs to <bug-autom...@gnu.org>.
$ ln --help | grep @
Maybe I am missing some history behind why the bug report email is not
included though.
Collin
[1]
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995
[2] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#g_t_002d_002dhelp
